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I wasn't going to read ideal sponger life, but I started it and it really surprised me by being two adults with informed consent on the part of the summonee. A strong opening, rather unexpected of isekai trash.
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Oo Koo posted:Well yeah, if one wants to be boring about it. Bit of a waste of the plot gimmick if it isn't being used for weird meta game mechanics. This would be, hands down, the best idea possible for an otome game sequel. Make the first game, let it get popular, then make a sequel where somebody gets reincarnated as the first game's villainess and all the changes you make to try and avoid your death flags start butterflying things.
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Apr 4, 2019 18:54
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MadRhetoric posted:. It also starts out in an automatically better position, since being the villain slated for death makes you the underdog by definition, and gives an immediate goal to work towards.
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I remember at least two where somebody was pulled in on their first login. One involved getting an invite from a friend that put him in a scantily clad woman character, I can't remember the other though.
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Apr 23, 2019 02:48
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everythingWasBees posted:look if you absolutely must talk about the breastfeeding isekai please at least be upfront about the central element instead of dancing around it. ...Which breastfeeding isekai?
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Jul 23, 2019 02:10
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:they are all people who were close to the reincarnated original hero. they weren't born as heroes, but rather became heroes because of their relationship to her. i'm not sure why that resulted in all of them ditching her without a word, though. They ditched her because they're not her destined love, obviously. The one who came back for her this time was the original hero's rival in love. edit: Keep the Final Boss: Actually kind of an interesting twist that the heroine's memories awakened as a direct consequence of the villainess breaking the timeline. NinjaDebugger fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Jul 26, 2019 |
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Jul 26, 2019 21:25
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Siegkrow posted:Space battles is a pretty good place to go read stuff. Sufficient Velocity has most of what spacebattles does fiction-wise and is a better place in general, I find.
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Aug 16, 2019 15:15
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khy posted:KOREAN Isekai time! There's blessedly no slavery, though it's such a dog eat dog world that there might as well be, but no magically enforced slavery as far as I recall, unless you count the crazy mad scientist's mind control stuff. On the down side, it's up to date with current as of March and the author is doing his military service, so it won't continue for over a year.
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Aug 29, 2019 12:15
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sunken fleet posted:Yeah his weird accidental omnipotence doesn't make a whole lot of sense. His initial "fictional setting" that is actually a 1:1 parallel with reality is just inexplicable. Maybe the world he reincarnated into really is just that cliche? Maybe he was specifically and purposely sent to that world on rebirth because it matched up with his weird fantasies? Maybe that just the way it is because if it wasn't that way half the punchlines wouldn't land? I don't know how long it carries on into the LN but in the beginning of the LN, in some bits that were cut out in the manga, he basically seems to make up the order of diablos based on actual legend. It turns out that the name he gives them is not accurate, they call themselves something slightly different, and it seems like their goal is not the same, but it's close enough that his followers latch onto it. There's a lot of that. He makes stuff up in a chuuni way and because it's a chuuni sort of world, they turn out to be close enough to reality that his followers can then latch onto them. A lot of the stuff that happens he doesn't predict at all, his followers bring it to him and he assumes they're just playing along when it's reality.
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Sep 6, 2019 12:53
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Kwyndig posted:Somebody's lying Second chapter has a near bloody finger lick and headpats.
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Oct 2, 2019 02:45
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VictualSquid posted:"Breaking Off the Engagement… Bring it on!" is updating again. Be nice if you provided a link, it's not showing up in search.
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Oct 12, 2019 03:08
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Galvanik posted:Did Wrong Way To Use Healing Magic get cancelled or something? It feels like I haven't seen an update in many months. Google ptscans, it and some others are there. They pulled out in the dumb drama over mangadex wanting to eventually go legit.
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Nov 2, 2019 02:09
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Argas posted:It's still kind of Rimuru's fault if only in the sense that he upset the status quo, as Tempest's location is basically really hurting the kingdom's economy. It's totally his fault for having such sexy, well placed tracts of land. Really, he was asking for it.
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Dec 2, 2019 22:46
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Artificer posted:What was that isekai someone posted before that was described as Dark Souls the Isekai? Was it good? https://mangadex.org/title/37415/samayoeru-tensei-sha-tachi-no-relive-game That's the one I've seen described as Dark Souls the Isekai (except with all the anime tiddy) It is uh... not entirely wholesome, though its unwholesomeness is pretty much entirely on the horny end of things rather than slavery and pedophilia.
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Dec 17, 2019 15:40
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Nipponophile posted:They're offline for planned server upgrades. The twitter says they expect to be down around 72 hours. other reporting says they are down because cloudflare's been subpoenaed about it so they had to find a new host in a hurry.
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LibrarianCroaker posted:https://sevenseasentertainment.com/...t-novel-series/ Really not sure why you think this is a good thing, that novel is hot garbage. Elfface posted:300-year-old witch is in a competition with Bakarina for who can accidentally get the most girlfriends. P sure Bakarina has to concede this one, she's got too many men around, while men don't really exist for the 300 year old witch.
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Sindai posted:It's definitely the best translated yuri webnovel I've seen. This is the one where the protagonist spends almost every waking moment sexually harassing her target, isn't it? Up to and including forcing her way into the girl's personal entourage? Yeah, I looked it up. She blackmails the target of her affections to force her way into the girl's personal entourage. It's a garbage plot and it absolutely doesn't belong in the wholesome thread. NinjaDebugger fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Apr 27, 2020 |
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Phobophilia posted:Okay I just started this series, and chapter 3 has a phenomenal gag where the heroine obliviously munches on a bird leg like some kind of barbarian in the background. The fact that she is a complete blank slate and barely has a personality has to be a deliberate decision. Finne absolutely has a personality, it's just that... okay, so it points out at some point, I forget when, that the original game has a potential path where you ignore the romance entirely in favor of getting swole as gently caress, and get so powerful that you solo the final boss. This Finne is on that route.
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May 5, 2020 13:28
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Clarste posted:Not that important, but it's not really an isekai since she isn't from the modern world or anything. She is a medieval fantasy person who reincarnates as herself only younger. A Peggy Sue. Which is also a fantastic genre, imo.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:
The apocalypse is a huge uptick in the appearance and difficulty of shadow realms, where shadow realms act like the games in ReBoot, if you lose, everything in the area of the shadow realm is consumed. The historical revision thing was presented as a typical but low-mid difficulty shadow realm, and the nature of shadow realms is to invert the history within them. In the original history, the kingdom was torn apart by suspicion and corruption and when the shadow realm happened, they couldn't beat it, got destroyed, and the leadup was turned into a shadow realm that reoccurred as we saw, with the goal being to replay history but find a way to achieve the opposite outcome. The whole thing seems to be an exercise in "loving work together or we're going to keep destroying your civilizations until you figure it out."
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Pyronic posted:This is v good. I just caught up with it. Just like, skim as fast as you can over the pre-isekai opening, which is hilariously awful.
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Jun 15, 2020 13:50
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amigolupus posted:I tried the first chapter of this but bounced off of it. The fact that the MC can't even speak of her own free will until the world decides she's hit an in-game choice makes it feel like she's got barely any agency as a protagonist. That she ends up just taking everyone's abuse also doesn't appeal to me. The best part is when she snaps and stands up for herself and is mystified when people have their affection rates rise.
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doomrider7 posted:Deathbound Duke's Daughter does this a bit by making that she only get about 3/7 of the endings or just under half the game done. So while she's familiar with the setting, a lot of stuff is still unknown to her. Villains are Fated to Die, I think it is, she's familiar as gently caress with the setting but gets dumped in in a scenario she has no idea about whatsoever (because it happens before the original paths even start) and also she's on hard mode.
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Jun 19, 2021 01:42
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doomrider7 posted:Doesn't he make a pact with the God/Goddess of Fire or is that part of the same ticket? But yeah, at first the isekai aspect felt tacked on, but starts to make more sense. She's also the goddess of death and Reincarnation. She was the one who brought him to this world to reincarnate.
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LorneReams posted:Yes, it's obviously the comic version of clickbait and doesn't represent the comic at all. I mean, it also sort of is an accurate representation of the opening of the series. He absolutely gets baited in by hot big tiddy queen with the need for seed. It's just that the whole situation is played entirely straight and not as a dumb vanilla power fantasy. It's absolutely a bait and switch, not just on the reader, but also on the main character.
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SubNat posted:I've genuinely lost count of how many times I've seen that Goddamn Fantasy Castle®️™️ in Chinese and Korean series. It's both.
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Aug 23, 2021 02:23
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Clarste posted:German rocket fuel in WW2 needed to have giant warnings not to drink it because it will kill you, and the soldiers still drank it because it contained alcohol. I cannot imagine a situation where a soldier does not want to sample the mortar ingredient that also smells good. People will eating loving anything. Yeah, it's the three standard questions that humanity asks when it finds a new thing. 1) Can I eat it? 2) Can I make alcohol from it? 3) Can I gently caress it? That's just how humanity works. Ancient Egyptian mummies? Seems edible! And if it's not initially edible, like fugu or like, lobster or other shellfish, people will gently caress around getting sick and/or dying until they DO figure it out, like we as a species are personally offended by things that do not fit into at least one of the three categories.
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Brought To You By posted:I just binged all the available chapters of Kill the Villainess and man is this 100% my jam as far as handling reincarnation. MC wasn't killed offscreen, she just woke up one day as the villainess in a story she wasn't particularly interested in and desperately just wants out. And she's not even trapped in a terribly interesting story; the prince is set to marry her because of politics between their families but is clearly pining for their mutual childhood friend from a fallen noble house. On top of that because she doesn't benefit from having the memories of the 'Lady Eris' she's come to inhabit those close to her have begun to notice those changes in personality and it's causing some uncomfortable questions and realizations to arise on their part. But also done something to change the script which is making the world care about someone that was previously neglected in her own way. All while the MC begins to realize the entities she's considered characters aren't as 1 dimensional as her recollection of the story had presented. the protagonist's name made me think of Holy Grail of Eris, and that made me sad that Mistakes Were Made apparently dropped it so hard they don't even list it as dropped anymore.
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darkgray posted:Probably because of this? https://yenpress.com/9781975339586/the-holy-grail-of-eris-vol-1-light-novel/ Yeah I went l looking and found it, pre-ordered on the spot.
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ThingOne posted:If we're doing recommendations then I have to go with Yakuza Reincarnation. An old Yakuza gets set up by his partner and finds himself reincarnated as the princess of a fantasy kingdom on the run from a coup led by her brother. What really makes the manga for me is the main character; you can tell he has an entire life behind him and it informs his values and how he approaches the problems he faces. His decades of experience in the criminal underworld are just as, if not more important than his ability to punch real good as he navigates the seedier parts of this new world. It has a much darker tone than most other Isakais but I also think it handles the heavier subjects it touches on a lot better. Please be warned that if you are extremely affected by late-Jojo level body horror, for example, you should think three or four times before reading Yakuza Reincarnation.
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golden bubble posted:That's mostly because D&D spell list rapidly ran out of control while the designers were still worried about realism for the physical classes. In an actual D&D isekai, the only cheat a protagonist would need is a good understanding of the poorly designed D&D rules and how easily they can be exploited. It would read a lot like that isekai about being transported into a Bethesda RPG where the MC gets 1000 strength from punching a measuring rod in the confessional and other speedrun-like tricks. There is a literal isekai like this, he's a d&d wizard and has like 1hp,but since he has full spells from his d&d wizard he's broke as gently caress.
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thetoughestbean posted:Ew, tokyopop I will never forgive Tokyopop for cancelling the Slayers light novels. I'm so glad J-Novel Club picked them up AND is releasing collector's edition omnibuses.
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Nalin posted:If you want legal epubs, just browse J-Novel Club. They sell stuff on Amazon. They're way out in front of everybody else, but I did find out not long ago that fantastic series Holy Grail of Eris is being released in english by Yen Press.
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SubNat posted:New Yakuza Reincarnation dropped. It's never a bad time to yeet a catgirl.
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SubNat posted:On the topic of finding lost Manga, there was another one I remember that I lost track of during the Fall of Mangadex. https://mangasee123.com/manga/Shi-ni-Modori-Subete-wo-Sukuu-Tame-ni-Saikyou-He-to-Itaru I don't recall that it ever returned to mangadex
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Spanish Matlock posted:My favorite part of instant death is the part where an extraplanar predatory anglerfish wants to eat the entire plane of existence that the MC is on and instantly dies, even though it lacks the concept of both time and death, because his power even works when he is completely unaware that someone or thing is trying to kill him. The whole thing is played as a passing gag for like one issue and it's great. The extraplanar predatory angler fish is probably a jab at shield hero, that's more or less what the final boss was.
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Apr 16, 2022 15:45
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Literally Kermit posted:Look candy often comes in papers and if you eat a lot of candy you are going to have a lot of papers, JUST LIKE A STATIONARY STORE I just assume that a stationery store near a school is going to sell sweets and such in addition to school supplies and adjacent.
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Kwyndig posted:Yeah I don't know much about Korean stationary stores but if they're by a school it would make sense to sell cold drinks and ice cream and candies as well as pencils and paper and other stationary. I did some quick google work and Korean stationery stores basically sell all that super cute kit that weebs and children go crazy for, even if it's not really stationery. There's one that specializes in cell phone accessories, apparently. Still a stationery store.
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Yinlock posted:If I Don't Die Soon, I'll Really Become Invincible has one joke, but it gets pretty good mileage out of it. A man is isekai'd into standard imperial china cultivation world 34B, and is told that if he dies he will immediately become an unstoppable supergod(suicide doesn't count). He's also not an rear end in a top hat, so he sets out to make a heroic last stand and die doing what's right. Except his ardent efforts to piss off psychos and fearlessness in the face of death are mistaken for incredible virtue by everyone including reality itself, so badasses rally to defend him with an emotional speech about how virtue can still exist in this world or the light of heaven shines down upon him to defend him from foes while he's like "please stop". As his powerful friends and defenses increase he has to piss off increasingly powerful evil people to stand a chance of dying, which is of course seen as a relentless pursuit of justice. At no point did I ever think someone would do Brewster's Millions but for cultivation and yet here we are.
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